I imagine this midnight moment’s forest:
Something else is alive
Beside the clock’s loneliness
And this blank page where my fingers move.

Through the window I see no star:
Something more near
Though deeper within darkness
Is entering the loneliness:

Cold, delicately as the dark snow,
A fox’s nose touches twig, leaf;
Two eyes serve a movement, that now
And again now, and now, and now

Sets neat prints into the snow
Between trees, and warily a lame
Shadow lags by stump and in hollow
Of a body that is bold to come
Across clearings, an eye,
A widening deepening greenness,
Brilliantly, concentratedly,
Coming about its own business
Till, with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox
It enters the dark hole of the head.
The window is starless still; the clock ticks,
The page is printed.

THE ‘THOUGHT-FOX’ HAS often been acknowledged as one of the most completely realised and artistically satisfying of the poems in Ted Hughes’s first collection, The Hawk in the Rain. At the same time it is one of the most frequently anthologised of all Hughes’s poems. In this essay I have set out to use what might be regarded as a very ordinary analysis of this familiar poem in order to focus attention on an aspect of Hughes’s poetry which is sometimes neglected. My particular interest is in the underlying puritanism of Hughes’s poetic vision and in the conflict between violence and tenderness which seems to be directly engendered by this puritanism.

‘The thought-fox’ is a poem about writing a poem. Its external action takes place in a room late at night where the poet is sitting alone at his desk. Outside the night is starless, silent, and totally black. But the poet senses a presence which disturbs him:

Through the window I see no star:
Something more near
Though deeper within darkness
Is entering the loneliness.

The disturbance is not in the external darkness of the night, for the night is itself a metaphor for the deeper and more intimate darkness of the poet’s imagination in whose depths an idea is mysteriously stirring. At first the idea has no clear outlines; it is not seen but felt – frail and intensely vulnerable. The poet’s task is to coax it out of formlessness and into fuller consciousness by the sensitivity of his language. The remote stirrings of the poem are compared to the stirrings of an animal – a fox, whose body is invisible, but which feels its way forward nervously through the dark undergrowth: Cold, delicately as the dark snow,

A fox’s nose touches twig, leaf;

The half-hidden image which is contained within these lines is of soft snow brushing against the trees as it falls in dark flakes to the ground. The idea of the delicate dark snow evokes the physical reality of the fox’s nose which is itself cold, dark and damp, twitching moistly and gently against twig and leaf. In this way the first feature of the fox is mysteriously defined and its wet black nose is nervously alive in the darkness, feeling its way towards us. But by inverting the natural order of the simile, and withholding the subject of the sentence, the poet succeeds in blurring its distinctness so that the fox emerges only slowly out of the formlessness of the snow. Gradually the fox’s eyes appear out of the same formlessness, leading the shadowy movement of its body as it comes closer: Two eyes serve a movement, that now

And again now, and now, and now

Sets neat prints into the snow
Between trees, and warily a lame
Shadow lags by...

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I imagine this midnight moment’s forest :
Something else is alive
Besides the clock’s loneliness
And this blank page where my fingers move.
本段loneliness重复出现了两次，与第一行的midnight形成呼应。相似的还有no star 与darkness。同时fingers move又与loneliness所表现出的寂静形成对比。虽然深夜静谧，但作者的思绪却正活跃，不然也无法在deep darkness里察觉到something is near and entering the loneliness。 标点也值得注意，冒号后交待的都是背景环境。
Through the window I see no star :
Something more near
Though deeper within darkness
Is entering the loneliness :
第一段交待了人物，时间，环境。提到了something else is alive。
最后一句的标点是个冒号，巧妙地与第二段构建起联系。
根据词典，to touch means to strike, usually quite gently.也就与第三段的neat形成了呼应。delicately和serve在查阅了词典后仍不知如何翻译.
Cold, delicately as the dark snow,
A fox’s nose touches twig, leaf;
第二行的leaf需要特别关注。因为leaf除了有叶子的意思，还有书页的意思。在这里是个双关语。一方面与twig搭配，另一方面则与第一段的page搭配。
Two eyes serve a movement, that now
And again now, and now, and now
that now…and now中有两个逗号，now重复出现了四次。表现了三点：第一，时间的推移；第二，狐狸的敏锐；第三，作者的敏锐。因为作者在时间的流逝中一直在观察或者想象狐狸的一举一动。
最后一个now又构建了与第三段的连接。
prints在本段第一句适合采用的解释为marks left by someone’s feet or fingers.但因为最后一段中出现了the page is printed，所以prints into the snow也可以看作是针对the page is printed的比喻。
warily与cautiously相近，与bold相反。
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